In roughly five years, officials say they have helped give out roughly 250,000 books.
A nonprofit based in the city's Germantown neighborhood is helping to get tens of thousands of books directly into the hands of kids in the community.A nonprofit based in the city's Germantown neighborhood is helping to get tens of thousands of books directly into the hands of kids in the community.
"We have fiction, non-fiction, we also have teacher resources," explained Executive Director Anne Keenan. "I realized a lot of the kids where I'm living have too much. So, I reached around and I got their gently used books which were virtually brand new and I thought 'Let's put them in the hands of kids,'" she said.
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